Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-08-31
DAKOTA NEWS.

begins to rise.
Work will soon be begun on the court
house at Aberdeen.
The new Presbyterian church at La.
Moure has been dedicated.
Gov. Mellette thinks division will
carry even in north Dakota.
AT Ipswich there 10 difficulty in getting
cais enough to carry the wheat.
The South Dakota Methodist confer.
ence meets in Aberdeen in October.
Aberdeen has missionary who has
just departed for India, Miss Lawson.
The Dakota Ruralist is the name Of .
new agricultural paper established at East
Pierre.
Two Farmers near Gary have gone b
Illinois to purchase 1000 Thoroughbred
sheep.
The Clay county sgfsculsural fair win
be held at Vermillion September 20, 81
and %.
Maj. Lightner has arrived at Fort
Sisseton to allot lands in severaliy to the
Indians.
The territorial board of equalization
has levied tax Of $40 mills for the en-
suing year.
The Pharmaceutical association OF
South Dakota was recently in session at
Sioux Falls.
-Tha ''City of Huron" plies the waters
Of the upper Jim and does quite an excur-
zion business.
AT jamestown, Delbert Buzzlc. 10
years old, accidentally shot and killed
Bruce Merry, aged years.
Gov. Church no longer registers IL.
X. Church. Dakota" but IL. X. Church,
Bismarck" says the Tribune.
The New England colony hackers are
doing good work for Dakota. Over 5O0,-
600 acres Of land have been purchased
from the Northern Pacific raikoad COM
pany.
The Madison and Bristol line Of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul is now
completed, and the construction outfits
have left Lake Preston for other fields OF
operation.
Though NJ. H. Day says he is out Of
politics there are those who still asser.
that he is quietly working to prevent q
Cleveland delegation representing Dakota
at the national democratic convention.
Railway Commissioner Griggs says
that before long all the warehouses will be
obliged to take out license and give
bonds for the storing of grain. He con.
sders it protection alike to elevator men
and farmers.
r. L. Smith, nm old-timc citizen and
leading merchant Of Wahpeton, while ill
With fever and delirious, got ont Of bed
and locking the door secured pen knife
and, it is thought, stood in front of a
looking glass and cut his throat. He has
since died.
An article from Fargo appeared in the
Chicago Tribune, urging that license was
in tn line OF prohibition, If high, and in
the nature of ins condemnatoly rather
thon justifying the traffic. At o union
meeting in Fargo the other night the Con.
gregational minister, who is n radical pro-
hibitionist, took occasion TO ridicule the
view, while speaking in the Presbyterian
pulpit After he ha concluded the Pres
byterian minister arose at his side and
claimed the authorship of the article thus
denounced.
An eastern exchange some time ago,
in commenting on the characteristic feature
Of Dakotas growth, had the following to
say which exhibits an accurate knowledge
of the true condition of affairs: It is al
ways mattor OF surprise to visitors 10
Dakota to see so many young men on the
farms aud in the towns of this territory,
and they are constrained to inquire the
meaning. 1t is n very simple problem, and
means that the bes. part OF the life. energy
nnl enterprise of the states has been given
10 fill the arteries and strengthen the sim
ews of this young giant, Dakota. 1t means
that the young man with push and brains
does not stay in the overcrowded, slow
moving eastern communities, but pushes
his way steadily to the front where he is
not compelled to compete with the accum-
u'ated capital of ages, and where energy,
enterprise and labor furnish the start SO
much desired by the youth Of the east.
That is why eight-tenths OF the business
men in Dakota towns are under thirty
years OF age, and why they have been
term d all over tho union Dakota Rus.
tiers" 1t is also one Of the elements which
will assure to Dakota bright md pros
porous future.
Many people OF Dakota are more o,
less interested in the law passed by the last
legi lature in relation 10 artesian we Is,
hence the same is given. The law passed
by the territorial legislature last winte,
permits the establishment an N ,intenance
OF wells and water courses therefrom by
the assessments of taxes on the property Of
townsh ps where located or through which
the water is run. Under the new law the
probate Judge 10 ex-cfficio artesian we'll
commissioner and shall have jurisdiction
over all artesian wells under this law, ap-
plication for which mus. be made to him,
of W ich he must keep record. The ap-
plication must be gned by fve free
holders of the townships in which such ar
tesian wells or the lands to be benefited
or assessed may be situated and give gen.
eral description Of the beginning ami the
terminus thereof. Tbs applicants are
liable for commiss ;oner's fees, surveying
ani all costs il he deem the process i'm.
practicable. In case the commissioner ap-
proves the application the right-o.-way is
approved by gift and damages as in case Of
railroads, name is given the we'll ~
which it is known and one or more papers
shall publish proposals for bids as in case
of erection Of school houses. The com.
missioner makes the assessment Of taxes
for the we'll, provides for the time Of nav.